Help needed: Artwork for SFD '09 team starter pack (schwag); Do we need to change the SFD logo font?
Hi all, Good day! We at SFI would like to seek the assistance of the whole SFD community on coming up with the final artwork that we could use for the goodies to be distributed for SFD '09 and beyond. According to the initial feedback that Fred got from here (SFD-discuss mailing-list), most teams would want T-shirts, CDs/DVDs (FOSS compilations and a resource DVD), generic SFD (A2-sized) posters, balloons, stickers, and button pins/badges. Before we move on to the specifics about what Artwork we would like to have for each of those stuff, I, in behalf of SFI would like to consult with all of you first if there's a need for us to change the font that we have been using for the SFD logo since 2005. As some/most of you might be aware of, the current logo font (Libel suit) that we are using is just a free (as in beer) font and not a free (as in speech) or open font. On a side note, if I'm not mistaken, the SFD logo that we've used in the first worldwide SFD celebration back in 2004 as depicted in this archived image file<http://web.archive.org/web/20040801002506/www.softwarefreedomday.org/layout/sfd_native/interface/title.png>, uses the Sans font from the GNU FreeFont<http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/>collection. Back to my main query about the SFD logo font, should we decide to change the logo font (I do hope that we should), perhaps the listing from the Free Font Compilation made from the Debian GNU/Linux distribution<http://fonts.debian.net/>would provide a good kick start for this purpose. We still have until the end of the month to decide on this. We would like to get as many feedback or sample logo works as possible from all/most of you before then. Thanks! JM Software Freedom Day
jmC8 schrieb:
As some/most of you might be aware of, the current logo font (Libel suit) that we are using is just a free (as in beer) font and not a free (as in speech) or open font. Good point. I think one should use a free/open font instead. I would suggest to use a rather new font.
Here is another list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_fonts I agree that it might be better to renew it all and also to decide quick so that there is more time to do stuff. It would also be a good idea to renew even if tis would not be a problem. So instead of trying to find out IF it is a problem, why not just start? regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig
Hi Thilo, Danke! Thanks for that quick response. I've already seen that list of fonts you mentioned and the only problem was that weren't too many options for modern looking sans serif logo fonts among the font examples from that list. @All: Please disregard the earlier list of fonts that I mentioned. It seems that it would take time sort out our way through more than a thousand fonts listed there. Moreover, I've just found out that not all fonts there are free (as in speech) and open licensed -- others are just freeware that are just freely redistributable. As an alternative, perhaps it would be better for us to look at the font collection listed at the Open Font Library <http://openfontlibrary.org/>website. I've already found a promising one and you may look at at my first output here: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/2009/Logo RFC Cheers! ~JM Software Freedom Day P.S. Prior to posting my first output on my SFD '09 logo experiments, as a gauge to whether I'm ready to post that or not, I asked my sister which between the two logos look better: SFD '08 or '09? Her answer was '09 because it's more eye-catching and that motivated to post this now. I hope you'll all like it as well. :-) On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Thilo Pfennig <tp@pfennigsolutions.de>wrote:
jmC8 schrieb:
As some/most of you might be aware of, the current logo font (Libel suit) that we are using is just a free (as in beer) font and not a free (as in speech) or open font. Good point. I think one should use a free/open font instead. I would suggest to use a rather new font.
Here is another list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_fonts
I agree that it might be better to renew it all and also to decide quick so that there is more time to do stuff. It would also be a good idea to renew even if tis would not be a problem. So instead of trying to find out IF it is a problem, why not just start?
regards, Thilo
-- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig
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Its a good idea to change the font to a free (as in speech) and open licensed :) I like the font used on the SFD09 logo. I think that the SFI team needs to choose 5 fonts and make a poll. There is a lot of good fonts, it will be very difficult to the SFI and it'll be a hard work to choose one in a thousand of fonts. -- Norman Garcia Aguilar http://www.normangarcia.info/blog Linux user # 444131 Ubuntu user # 15806
Hi all, I have recently updated the 2009 logo page<http://softwarefreedomday.org/Artwork/2009/Logo>with a couple of new logo image experiments. All of which are re-"creations" of SFD legacy artwork used back in 2004 and 2005. RFC Cheers, JM Software Freedom Day On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Norman Garcia Aguilar < norman.garcia@ubuntu.org.ni> wrote:
Its a good idea to change the font to a free (as in speech) and open licensed :) I like the font used on the SFD09 logo.
Thanks Norman
I think that the SFI team needs to choose 5 fonts and make a poll. There is a lot of good fonts, it will be very difficult to the SFI and it'll be a hard work to choose one in a thousand of fonts.
-- Norman Garcia Aguilar http://www.normangarcia.info/blog Linux user # 444131 Ubuntu user # 15806
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